Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8317 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age metal finds, Sutton Staithe Boatyard |
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Summary
Bronze Age shields and copper alloy dishes were found buried beneath the concrete of a slipway in about 1960.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | SUTTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Before 1960. Sutton Staithe boat yard. ?Bronze Age shields, bronze dishes found and buried beneath concrete of slipway.
Previous to building of slipway this was an area of sawpits where wherries were lying about. Possibly originally found when sawpits dug; about a dozen.
E. B. Green (NCM).
Monument Types
- SAW PIT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHIELD (Undated)
- VESSEL (Undated)
- SHIELD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- VESSEL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Sutton. |
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